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		<title>The Contractors Holy Grail &#8211; Time Tracking</title>
		<link>http://www.cognition.ca/2008/03/time-tracking-by-twitter-for-contractors.html</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has a system. Here&#8217;s mine: http://timetrack.cognition.ca/ It doesn&#8217;t matter how good you are, or how many hours you work &#8211; if you don&#8217;t bill for it, you ain&#8217;t gonna get paid. Now I&#8217;ve put together a little tool that will allow you to keep track of how you&#8217;re spending your time (and BILL for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/52057836/Picture_19.png" align="left" border="0" height="180" hspace="10" vspace="10" width="187" />Everyone has a system. Here&#8217;s mine: <a href="http://timetrack.cognition.ca/">http://timetrack.cognition.ca/</a></p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter how good you are, or how many hours you work &#8211; if you don&#8217;t bill for it, you ain&#8217;t gonna get paid. Now I&#8217;ve put together a little tool that will allow you to keep track of how you&#8217;re spending your time (and BILL for it, if that&#8217;s your thing) &#8211; <strong>no matter where you are, or what you&#8217;re doing. </strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s a Twitter app, you see. So you can talk to it from:</p>
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<li>A webpage</li>
<li>An instant-messaging client, or</li>
<li>Your phone (via text-messaging)</li>
</ul>
<p>You don&#8217;t even have to set up an account first &#8211; just follow <a href="http://twitter.com/timetrack">http://twitter.com/timetrack</a>, wait a minute or two for the bot to start following you back, and then send simple messages like this:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>d timetrack start washingfloors<br />
d timetrack stop washingfloors</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>If you match up the start and stop commands, the bot will total up the time for you. (Don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;ll give you the exact times of every action regardless, so you can clean things up later if you forget something.)</p>
<p>Now, here&#8217;s my question for you &#8211; what sort of reports and exports would you like to see? Here are a few I&#8217;m considering:</p>
<ul>
<li>SalesForce.com export</li>
<li>Blinksale (Invoicing) data</li>
<li>CSV / Excel spreadsheet data</li>
<li>XML / JSON</li>
<li>Quickbooks payroll data</li>
</ul>
<p>What have I missed?</p>
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